I’m married to a German citizen who’s a life-long resident here in Hamburg, and I spent most of the winter and spring in this ...

Some Thoughts on Optimism, Adversity and Big Rubber Doughnuts Two guys were doing tractor tyre flips across the campus green.

In these days when the formerly public sphere is balkanized by billions of individualized audiotopias in which so many are ...

The reason why the highwayman masters the traveler is not his pistol, but his personality.  If the party attacked really had the superiority in character ...

Donald Trump’s first official travel overseas in both his first and second presidential terms centered on the Middle East and ...

There is joy in diplomatic Geneva. The neutral, good offices convenor of Reagan-Gorbachev and Putin–Biden summits is back in ...

Institutions, private and public, wield immense power over the lives of people in and out of the U.S. Thus, people's organized actions to change ...

They seemed made for each other.  A former reality television star, with dubious real estate credentials, a freakish alienation from the truth, and the ...

In the United States, and especially Chicago, where a young Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, attended minor seminary ...

Trump—and many others—have skillfully manipulated Americans’ economic precarity by serving up people with pretend motivations ...

The Trump Administration really seems to have a thing for genocide, and I don't believe this statement to be hyperbolic even ...

I admonished my college students to keep a daily journal, especially when they travelled. Putting my preaching into practice ...